Research

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Book Chapters

1.    Firm and Team Country-of-Origin Diversity and Innovation (with P. Parrotta and F. Lissoni), in  Lissoni, Francesco, and Andrea Morrison,  A Research Agenda for Migration and Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

2. The Volkswagen Emission Scandal: Exploring the Role of Environmental Concern and Social Norms (with P. Parrotta, D. Sala, and G. Valletta), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024.

3. What Makes Entrepreneurship Counter-Cyclical? Evidence from a shutdown of start-up subsidies in Denmark (with F. Melillo, P. Parrotta and N. Smith), Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2024.

4. Social Capital and Regional Innovation in the Aftermath of Crisis: Evidence from Italian Provinces (with S. Montresor and A. Faggian), The Annals of Regional Science. 2024.

5. Money to Move: The Effect on Researchers of an International Mobility Grant,  Research Policy, 2020 (with S.H. Baruffaldi and F. Visentin)

6.   Electricity (De-)Regulation and Innovation, (with P. Parrotta and G. Valletta), Research Policy, 2018.

7.   The impact of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme on Multiple Measures of Economic Performance, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017  (with G. Marin and C. Pellegrin)

8.  Additionality or Crowding-out? An Overall Evaluation of R&D Subsidy on Private R&D Expenditure, Research Policy, 2016 (with P. Parrotta,  S. Lhuillery and D.Sala)

9.  Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016  (with P. Parrotta and D. Pozzoli)

10.  Self-employment, Start-up Incentives and Political Ideology, Applied Economics Letters, 2015,  (with  S. H. Baruffaldi  and P. Parrotta)

11.  Does Parents' Cultural Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?, Applied Economics Letters, 2015, (with P. Parrotta)

12.   Patenting and The Role of Knowledge Spillovers, World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2014, (with C.W. Bloch)

13.  Does Labor Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?, Economics Letters, 2012, (with P. Parrotta and D. Pozzoli) 

  Best Papers and Proceedings

1. What Makes Entrepreneurship Counter-cyclical? Evidence from a shutdown of start-up subsidies in Denmark (with F. Melillo, P. Parrotta and N. Smith), Academy of Management Best Papers and Proceedings, 2022

2. International Mobility and Research Careers: Evidence from a Mobility Grant, Academy of Management Best Papers and Proceedings, 2017 (with S.H. Baruffaldi and F. Visentin)

  Policy Reports

1. Evaluation of the impact of direct and indirect support to R&D in France (with P. Parrotta and S. Lhuillery). Study commissioned by the French Ministry of Education and Research, 2013

2. Advanced Postdoc.Mobility Fellowships (SNSF): A Policy Evaluation. (with S.H. Baruffaldi, D. Foray, and F. Visentin). 2015. Policy Brief. College of Management of Technology Series, Issue 2015/1. Commissioned by the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

Forthcoming Projects:

1. The Job Satisfaction of Former Entrepreneurs. Unpacking Non-Pecuniary Returns to Entrepreneurial Experience (with F. Melillo, Peter Thompson, and H. Brea Solis). R&R Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

2. Beyond Legitimacy: Vulnerability, Psychological Safety, and Entrepreneurial Storytelling on Social Media  (with G. Cacciotti and Deniz Ucbasaran). R&R Journal of Business Venturing.

3. Categories as Bulkheads: How Ownership Opacity Limits Intra-Organizational Contamination (with A. Piazza and P. Parrotta).  Submitted. 

4. Improving the Use of Confiscated Assets: A Field Experiment on Managerial Education for Social Cooperatives (with P. Parrotta, M. Stimolo, A. Stringhi, G. Immordino ).

5. Entrepreneurship as Emancipation: The Unusual Case of an Organization Countering the Mafia (with G. Cacciotti, P. Parrotta and  F. De Bakker). 

6. The direct and indirect effects of environmental investment subsidies on green investment (with K.B. Tchorzewska and P. Del Rio Gonzaléz). 

7. Climate Risk Exposure and Environmental Innovations - The Role of Product Market Competition (with Muhammad Shumail Mazahir and Ahmad Muhammad Farooq). 

8. EU Leniency Program Reforms and Innovation Outcomes (with P.Parrotta, G. Valletta, V. Sterzi and A. Jochem). 

9. Local Government Size and Innovation: the Case of Italian Provinces (with F. Casoria, P. Parrotta and D. Sala). 

10. Business Cycle and R&D Additionality (with J. Møen and P. Parrotta).

11. Larger Subsidies, Greener Technologies? Assessing the Influence of Environmental Funding on the Dutch Manufacturing Firms (with M. Marino, K. B. Tchorzewska  F.P.  Appio).